Cotton processing plant starts operation in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif

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Cotton processing plant starts operation in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif

STORY: Cotton processing plant starts operation in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif DATELINE: Oct. 11, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a cotton processing plant in Balkh Province, Afghanistan 2. various of workers operating cotton processing machines 3. shot of workers unloading packed cotton STORYLINE: A cotton processing plant built at a cost of 2 million U.S. dollars has been inaugurated in Mazar-i-Sharif city, the capital of northern Balkh province in Afghanistan, the country's state-run Bakhtar news agency reported. The plant, with a capacity of processing 70,000 kg of cotton in 24 hours, has provided job opportunities for 100 people, the news agency reported. "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan fully supports investment and establishing producing plants," Bakhtar quoted a provincial government official Mawlawi Borjan as saying. The Taliban-run caretaker administration has been calling upon local and foreign companies to invest in wa

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